I have not yet tried the vanilla kernel, I will give that a shot and let you know what happens.

I have also found some file corruption, which is strange as I am using a RAID 5 array that should be somewhat self-healing. I am not sure if it is a cause or effect of the numerous crashes during my attempts to diagnose but i may have to kill my root and start from scratch rebuilding everything in order to know what is causing this. I will update you here later, but if you see anything in the log file worth noting please let me know.